Mexico fireworks market explosion kills 27

The number killed in the fireworks market explosion north of Mexico City jumps to at least 27, with scores more wounded, authorities say. Gavino Garay reports.

▲ Hide Transcript

▶ View Transcript

Jose Luis Tolentino was driving along a highway in the Mexican city of Tultepec when this happened.
A fireworks market explosion that emergency officials say killed at least 27 people and injured some 70 others.
The explosion happened just north of the Mexican capital.
Emergency workers say that number killed is only an initial estimate.
Rescuers on scene are still searching for survivors and television footage showed destroyed buildings and charred stalls.
This isn't the first such explosion in Mexico.
A fireworks blast just before the country's 2005 independence day celebration injured scores.
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto has offered his condolences to the victims of this latest blast.

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products: